Zepos & Yannopoulos

Litigation & Arbitration

Asc. Professor Dimitris Babiniotis serves as head of our Litigation & Arbitration practice. Dimitris' practice focuses on complex state court litigation and commercial arbitration, both domestic and international.

Litigation: Dimitris is widely recognized as a leading authority in appellate and cassation litigation. Having written extensively in these areas, he is regularly instructed by clients from all sectors of the market, irrespective of the nature and subject matter of their disputes, to deal with the highly sophisticated procedural issues involved in proceedings before the Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. In this context, Dimitris has acted as lead counsel representing corporate clients in a wide range of commercial and corporate disputes in both domestic and cross-border contexts. These include, but are not limited to, shareholder disputes, free and unfair competition disputes before state courts, consumer disputes including pharmaceutical disputes, disputes arising out of complex commercial transactions such as M&A transactions, financing transactions and distribution and agency agreements. He has also represented corporate clients in a wide variety of tort disputes, including business defamation, employment torts, and directors' and officers' liability claims.

Arbitration: Dimitris has acted as lead counsel in a large number of complex international and domestic commercial arbitration proceedings. His practice encompasses disputes in all major industry sectors, namely construction and infrastructure, energy and financial services. Dimitris has also represented corporate clients in numerous arbitrations involving the Greek State or Greek state-owned entities in disputes arising out of public contracts.

Arbitration-related litigation: Dimitris is widely regarded as an authority on arbitration-related litigation, having served as lead counsel in numerous proceedings for the annulment, recognition, and enforcement of arbitral awards before Greek state courts. He has also successfully represented international clients in compelling arbitration when litigation had been improperly initiated against them in Greek state courts. Dimitris is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court.

Dimitris is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he teaches civil procedure and arbitration at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His scholarly work encompasses arbitration, Supreme Court litigation (the law of cassation), appellate procedure, the binding effect of state court decisions and arbitral awards and the standards of judicial review of arbitral awards.

He serves on the editorial boards of Greece's two most prestigious procedural law journals: the "Review of Procedural Law” and “Chronicles of Procedural Law”.

Dimitris was appointed to serve as the official ambassador for the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) in Greece.

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Democritus University of Thrace Law School (Ph.D.) Harvard Law School (LL.M.) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Law School (LL.B.)